Quoting matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>:
> I am using openldap 2.3.21 and bdb 4.4.20 (both compiled 64-bit) on
> solaris 10.
>
> I followed (How do I determine the proper BDB/HDB database cache
> size?) http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1075.html and saw the
> note:
> "I don't have enough free RAM to hold all the 800MB id2entry data, so
> 4MB is good enough."
> And I found my number (around 30MB), which got me -great- read
> performance.
>
> (so far I have my sun v120 upto 750+ BINDS/second using slamd and a
> few thousand test accounts. Although, when I turned on logging, it
> went down to 350/second)
This seems rather low. I'll note that on Solaris it is best to use a shared
memory cache. My SunFire 120's get several thousand searches/second.
> Well.. what if you do have enough ram? Do you just set a huge cache
> size, and it will eventually grab the whole thing? Do I need to
> include my indexes and other things in that memory calculation, or
> just the id2entry?
Yep.
> The man page mentions that hdb needs a very large idlcachesize
> relative to the cachesize. What's the bdb recommendation on this?
>
> When I checkpoint and use DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE, what am I losing? The
> old transactions that have already been written to the database on
> disk? This would mean that my log.### are all active, correct? Since
> the old ones would have been deleted.
>
> And can multiple subordinate databases (I didn't find a lot of
> documentation about subordinate, by the way. Shouldn't that be in
> slapd.conf(5)?) share the same set_lg_dir? Or should they be
> separated into directories of their own?
Their own directories with their own DB_CONFIG files.
I suggest reading over:
http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/configuration/
--Quanah